Top 25
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Longevity CoachBalanced
Coach Profile
Ralph Graham
College football coaching record, Kansas State years & career stats
1906-1950 • Davidson, Kansas State, Wichita State
3 schools coached, anchored by Kansas State.
Ralph Graham's coaching record is 23-38-4, highlighted by seasons at Kansas State from 1906 to 1950.
Ralph Graham coached 7 seasons, won 38.5%, and posted an average SRS of -10.4. Best season: 1907 Davidson. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 23-38-4
- Career win rate
- 38.5%
- Average SRS
- -10.4
- Peak SRS
- 0.2
Career Dossier
One glance at the full arc.
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
- Seasons coached
- 7
- Career span
- 45 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 32.2
Quick Answers
Records fans search first
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
- Overall record
- 23-38-4
- Kansas State record
- 4-26-1
- Full-season record
- 23-38-4
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-3
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1
- Vs Kansas
- 0-3
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
65 countable games, 38.5% win rate.
3 countable seasons at Kansas State.
7 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
Sunflower Showdown games in this dataset.
0 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Career Résumé
Ralph Graham season milestones
Winning, 10-win, and undefeated seasons are derived from countable season rows. Finish and title totals use the tracked final-ranking data.
- Winning seasons
- 3
- 10-win seasons
- 0
- Undefeated seasons
- 0
- Top-10 finishes
- 0
- National titles
- 0
43% of countable seasons
Seasons with at least 10 wins
No losses or ties
Tracked final rankings
Championship seasons
Record definition and data status
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.
Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Dec 2, 1950. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Coach FAQ
Quick answers about Ralph Graham
Who is Ralph Graham?
Ralph Graham is a college football coach in the CFBTrack coaching database with primary school context at Kansas State, with a 23-38-4 career record from 1906-1950 across 7 countable seasons.
What is Ralph Graham's college football coaching record?
Ralph Graham's college football coaching record is 23-38-4 across 7 countable seasons, anchored by Kansas State.
Which schools did Ralph Graham coach?
Ralph Graham coached at Davidson, Kansas State, Wichita State in the seasons covered by this profile.
How many winning seasons did Ralph Graham have?
Ralph Graham had 3 winning seasons across 7 countable season rows in this profile.
How many 10-win seasons did Ralph Graham have?
Ralph Graham had 0 seasons with at least 10 wins in the countable season data.
How many Top-10 finishes did Ralph Graham have?
Ralph Graham recorded 0 Top-10 final finishes in the tracked rankings.
What years did Ralph Graham coach at Kansas State?
Ralph Graham's Kansas State head coach years were 1948-1950, covering 3 countable seasons with a 4-26-1 record.
How did Ralph Graham do against ranked opponents?
Ralph Graham's AP Top 25 time-of-game record is 0-5 across 5 games.
How does CFBTrack count Ralph Graham's coaching record?
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Ralph Graham career arc
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on the peaks, floors, and changes between seasons.
Ralph Graham
EliteStrongAverageLean
Ralph Graham: 1946 Wichita StateRalph Graham: 1948 Kansas State
1906Actual season year • SRS range -24.3 to 0.21950
Active comparison point
Ralph Graham • 1907
1907 Davidson
Best season4-1-1 • SRS 0.2 • SP Overall —
Win %
75.0%
YoY SRS
+4.8
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
Season context
Focus a point to inspect that season's record, rating, finish, and year-over-year change.
Ranked opponent record
Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.
Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.
Top 10
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results5
| 1950 Regular Week 9 | Kansas State | Nebraska | #16 | L21-49 |
| 1950 Regular Week 6 | Kansas State | Oklahoma | #3 | L0-58 |
| 1950 Regular Week 2 | Kansas State | Washington | #10 | L7-33 |
| 1948 Regular Week 6 | Kansas State | Oklahoma | #9 | L0-42 |
| 1946 Regular Week 2 | Wichita State | Tulsa | #20 | L13-33 |
Tenure map
Read the career chronologically. Each stint expands by seasons coached, with its record and average SRS kept in view.
Length = seasons coachedOldest to newest
- Longest tenure
- Kansas State • 3 seasons
- Best tenure
- Davidson • -2.2 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Davidson • 65.4%
Style and Strength Profile
Read strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.
These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.
Overall Strength
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Overall Strength
Not enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Ralph Graham
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Ralph Graham coaching record by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Kansas State
1948-1950 • 4-26-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -17.1Win % 14.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
1.3 during vs 0.8 baseline
+0.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-17.1 during vs -24.6 baseline
+7.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Wichita State
1946-1947 • 12-9
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -8.6Win % 57.1%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Davidson
1906-1907 • 7-3-3
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -2.2Win % 65.4%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Davidson 1907
4-1-1 • SRS 0.2
Biggest Improvement
Kansas State 1949
2-8 • 15.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Kansas State 1948
1-9 • SRS -24.3
Biggest Drop
Kansas State 1948
1-9 • -19.5 SRS
Ralph Graham coaching record by season
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
Scroll horizontally for advanced ratings. Select any column heading to change the sort.
| Kansas State | 1950 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 13.6% | — | — | -18.3 | — | — | — | -9.7 | -6.4% | Season summary |
| Kansas State | 1949 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.0% | — | — | -8.6 | — | — | — | +15.7 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Kansas StateLowest | 1948 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10.0% | — | — | -24.3 | — | — | — | -19.5 | -53.6% | Season summary |
| Wichita State | 1947 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | -4.8 | — | — | — | +7.6 | +13.6% | Season summary |
| Wichita State | 1946 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -12.4 | — | — | — | -12.6 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| DavidsonBest | 1907 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 75.0% | — | — | 0.2 | — | — | — | +4.8 | +17.9% | Season summary |
| Davidson | 1906 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 57.1% | — | — | -4.6 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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